Schumann@Home (tripple CD)
(Duration CD1: 01:01:42) (Duration CD2: 01:02:01) (Duration CD3: 00:41:15)
Featured works and artists on this album:
CD1: 1-16 Dichterliebe, op.48 17-19 Tragödie, op.64,3 20-27 Frauenliebe und Leben, op.42 Gabriella Karácsonyi: piano
CD2: 1-12 Liederkreis, op.39
Kristi Becker: piano
13-21 Liederkreis, op.24 Pi-hsien Chen: piano
22 Volksliedchen, op.51,2 23 Die Lotosblume, op.25,7 24 Was will die einsame Träne, op.25,21 25 Was soll ich sagen, op.27,3 26 Lehn deine Wang’, op.142,2 27 Mein Wagen rollet langsam, op.142,4 Juan Carlos Garvayo: piano
CD3: Schumann Comes Home
Audio play created and made by Mona Burmann produced by Rainhard Kobialka
Music by Robert Schumann.
All compositions by Robert Schumann.
Mona Burmann: soprano
Recorded, produced and mastered by Reinhard Kobialka at Topaz Studio, Cologne, december 2011 - december 2015.
RELEASE DATE: JUNE 16th, 2026
CD #0045 Mona Burmann : Schumann@Home
With the CD Schumann@Home, soprano Mona Burmann presents a three-CD album featuring various song cycles by Robert Schumann and an audio play, which she produced together with sound engineer Reinhard Kobialka during the recording period.
It was the youthful naturalness of Mona Burmann’s interpretation that fascinated composer Maria de Alvear from the very beginning. This inspired the idea that these songs might have sounded this way in Schumann’s time, when they were performed by women or young people from upper-class families. This idea became the starting point for the project.
For the recording, Burmann was accompanied by four renowned pianists: Gabriella Karácsonyi, Kristi Becker, Pi-hsien Chen, and Juan Carlos Garvayo.
In addition to Schumann’s major song cycles, such as Dichterliebe, Frauenliebe und -leben, and the song cycles Op. 24 and Op. 39, Mona Burmann—inspired by Maria de Alvear—presents another unusual interpretation of Schumann’s songs on the third CD: Schumann Comes Home is an audio play written and performed by Mona Burmann, in which she integrates Schumann’s songs into her personal everyday soundscape, creating an intimate and unusual listening experience.
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(Artwork: Aufbruch, 2012, Mona Burmann, Foto by Berthold Wegner)